Understand how the fibres below our feet can detect movement and produce data which can be used to control traffic in an intelligent way to reduce congestion, emissions and improve air quality & safety.
Cities on the Frontlines: LIVE from cop26 advancing net-zero and resilience
Preview: Lauren Sorkin, executive director at Resilient Cities Network, will be joined by Mayor of Miami, Francis Suarez, for reflections live from Cop26 and a discussion around advancing urban resilience.
In the latest SmartCitiesWorld podcast, sponsored by Cloudera and IBM Storage, senior editor Luke Antoniou hosts Anthony Behan, managing director for communications, media and entertainment at Cloudera, to talk 5G, data, connectivity, and what innovation in this space means for telcos and their customers in cities.
Preview: In part two of our conversation with Monica Barone, CEO of the City of Sydney, we discover the changing nature of city relationships with citizens, how that can shape resilience and climate action, and lead to more equitable and inclusive communities.
Preview: The part one of the latest episode of the Urban Exchange sees Monica Barone, CEO of the City of Sydney, in conversation with Jeff Risom to understand how the nature of resilience is changing, and how Monica and the city are adapting.
We hear from Sonya Shorey at Invest Ottawa as she discusses the innovation, its impact on the community and global markets, and the importance of the ecosystem approach.
The roadmap outlines significant enhancements to broaden market reach and simplify deployments, including improved connectivity in challenging environments.
City of Elk Grove pre-emption pilot aims to improve emergency vehicle safety and travel times for first responders travelling to local emergency facilities.
Orange County Transportation Authority has awarded a $9.6m contract to Iteris to provide signal timing design, operations and maintenance for 34 cities.
AI platform gives traffic authorities and infrastructure operators the ability to fully control and prioritise traffic flow for all kinds of transportation.
The Arizona city will work with Lyt and the Maricopa Association of Governments to improve emergency vehicle safety and travel times for first responders.
Project included installation of 50,000 smart electricity meters and connection of Itron’s DI-enabled AMI solution with Coopesantos’ customer information system.
We showcase two examples that underscore the growing significance of digital twin technology in shaping the smart spaces, from enhancing cellular coverage insights to optimising airport operations.
Geoactio is making Optibus’ GTFS Manager accessible to Spanish public transit agencies and cities that have been struggling to transfer service data to the cloud.
Trial proved rapid-install neutral hosting at a fraction of the cost of conventional 5G infrastructure at both Times Square street-level and subway station.
We showcase three examples of public and private sector investment in networks and the cloud that will provide vital underpinning infrastructure for the future.
Integration will offer utility customers a seamless and intuitive user experience using natural language requests and transform the decision-making processes.
After partnering with the Arab Organisation for Industrialisation, Iveda seeks to solidify its position in 5G, AI, and sustainable tech throughout the region.
Arcadus is the first value-added reseller of Matterport’s federally-compliant digital twin platform that aims to drive progress across the US public sector.
As part of the project, FiberLight is providing high-speed 10- and 100GB connectivity to the Public Infrastructure Network Nodes across some 92 miles of SH 130.
The transport authority has completed the first and second phases of its energy-saving project to install 19,968 LED bulbs on metro stations and facilities.
Leading Cities is inviting municipalities and private companies to apply for the pilot offerings designed to tackle distinct urban development challenges.
Honeywell and Analog Devices aim to help buildings upgrade to digital connectivity tech without replacing existing wiring, reducing cost, waste and downtime.
The National Transport Authority is set to connect all of Ireland’s 2,300 buses via an automatic vehicle location solution from technology provider Trapeze.
Project is leveraging IoT and decentralised wireless networks technology to gather real-time data about the wellbeing of Valencia’s most vulnerable citizens.
Discover how cities around the world are using the latest technologies, from AI to digital twins and video sensors, to spark a revolution in urban sustainability and efficiency.
Manminder Takhar, Global CTO, Global Digital Cities, Dell Technologies, explores how cities are embracing digital transformation to tackle urban challenges, ensure accessibility and equity, and enhance operational efficiency, while keeping sustainability front of mind.
Monaco Cloud aims to deliver the principality with digital infrastructure and services that meet the highest international security and compliance standards.
Edinburgh’s smart city projects have already tackled issues such as digital inclusion and air quality and helped the council deliver services more effectively.
It is working with VivaCity to establish a network of AI-powered sensors, which will count different types of road users, paths of travel, and travel speeds.
Las Vegas expects collaboration to set a precedent for other cities globally, showcasing the potential of edge computing and AI in transforming urban landscapes.
It will collaborate with tech company Dell and digital infrastructure specialist Equinix to drive innovation and green practices for a more sustainable future.
The solution from Hexagon will provide utilities and telcos a geospatial solution that provides a single source of accurate, up-to-date information on assets.
Partnering with the Arab Organisation for Industrialisation, the AI and sensor specialist will support and scale smart city developments across the country.
Senet and ProSentry have announced a partnership to deliver smart building solutions utilising platform-as-a-service for private LoRaWan network deployments.
The three-year contract awarded to smart mobility infrastructure specialist Iteris will enable the agency to analyse traffic data throughout the region.
Dubai Digital Clouds project consists of multiple clouds designed to provide high levels of flexibility and efficiency and the best private-public solutions.
It is working with UrbanLogiq to break down data silos and integrate San Mateo County’s Department of Public Works into a network of more than 30 agencies.
More than 30 per cent of the projected information and comms technology spending will be for applications developed on the Government Commercial Cloud.
Juniper Research’s ranking of 50 world cities evaluates transportation, infrastructure, energy, lighting, city management, technology and urban connectivity.
The new Fremont Street project seeks to improve connectivity for a range of city services and smart applications from smart transportation to public safety.
Salem Area Mass Transit District is working with connected traffic tech specialist LYT to reduce congestion and improve traffic flow at critical intersections.
Delaware DoT will use Aurigo’s Masterworks to prioritise project requests, manage the use of state and federal funds, and keep track of programme performance.
The US states are deploying Cepton’s smart lidar solutions for government-funded projects, aligned to the national Vision Zero and Complete Streets initiatives.
Bitsensing’s smart city monitoring system runs on Nvidia’s Jetson platform and uses edge AI computing to accelerate the end-to-end process of traffic management.
New 5G system will focus on secure, private, low-cost and delay-sensitive applications in drones, autonomous vehicles, mobile edge computing and public safety.
Now in its sixth year, the challenge launched by IBM encourages developers to build solutions using IBM AI and hybrid cloud to address and fight climate change.
Seven startups worked alongside network experts from Verizon to create new 5G use cases, and incorporate 5G and MEC-enabled technologies into their services.
Collaborative project aims to improve the delivery of new, monetisable services by reducing data traffic towards the core of the wireless and fibre networks.
The platform provides organisations with the ability to model the real world and connect enterprise and IoT data at the edge to their digital twins in the cloud.
MobiBrasil, which operates some of Brazil’s most important public transport systems, will use it to optimise services for 15 million passengers per month.
The annual Call for Code challenge invited innovators across the globe to help accelerate sustainability and combat climate change with open source-powered technology.
The University of Colorado in partnership with Colorado Smart Cities Alliance and Innosphere Ventures is launching the Smart Futures Lab to support new and growing smart cities companies.
Launched in the US to reduce energy consumption, Nordic Propeye claims the solution leverages artificial intelligence to achieve 15-30 per cent energy savings.
Telecoms company Du and artificial intelligence and analytics solutions provider Derq will collaborate on piloting 5G communication and edge computing technologies.
The smart campus at the University of Murcia will give students and researchers access to one of Europe’s most advanced 5G and data space environments.
As one of largest bus companies in Austria, Dr Richard Linien is also bringing cities such as Graz, Linz, Villach, and St Pölten onto the cloud-based platform.
Optibus’ end-to-end software platform will help improve services for the BRT system’s 255,000 daily passengers and optimise efficiency of the entire network.
The cloud-based platform unifies data from different departments and agencies and helps government agencies deliver timely and efficient public services.
Preview: In part two of our conversation with Monica Barone, CEO of the City of Sydney, we discover the changing nature of city relationships with citizens, how that can shape resilience and climate action, and lead to more equitable and inclusive communities.
As well as bring advanced cloud computing services to more organisations and support the drive to Thailand 4.0, it will allow customers who want to keep their data in the region to do so.
Equinix’s expansion to Jakarta is aligned with the Indonesian government’s digital transformation initiatives, according to goals set out in the digital roadmap.
Preview: The part one of the latest episode of the Urban Exchange sees Monica Barone, CEO of the City of Sydney, in conversation with Jeff Risom to understand how the nature of resilience is changing, and how Monica and the city are adapting.
The smart city competency programme is designed to connect customers with “world-class” AWS Partners that build and accelerate smart city cloud solutions that run on AWS.
